# վառեկ
## Armenian
### Alternative forms

* վառյակ (vaṙyak)
* վառէկ (vaṙēk) — Akhaltsikhe, Erzurum
* վառեգ (vaṙeg) — Alashkert, Khotorjur, Mush
* վառէկ$^յ$ (vaṙēk$^y$) — Maragheh
* վառէգ (vaṙēg) — Hamshen, Nor Nakhichevan, Sivas, Aslanbeg
* վառէք$^յ$ (vaṙēkʻ$^y$) — Kharberd
* վա̈ռէկ (väṙēk) — Van
* վա̈ռէկ$^յ$ (väṙēk$^y$) — Salmas
* վառիգ (vaṙig) — Ararat, Zeitun, Svedia
* վառիկ$^յ$ (vaṙik$^y$) — Shamakhi
* վարիկ (varik) — Tbilisi
* վա̈ռիկ (väṙik), վա̈ռըկ (väṙək) — Moks
* վառնէկ (vaṙnēk) — New Julfa

### Etymology

From Middle Armenian վառեկ (vaṙek).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /vɑˈrek/, [vɑrék]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /vɑˈɾeɡ/, [vɑɾéɡ]

### Noun

վառեկ • (vaṙek)
* pullet, chick
* (Vozm, slang) bride

#### Derived terms

* վառեկիլ (vaṙekil)

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: varek, varik (dialectal)

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վառեակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 308b

## Middle Armenian
### Etymology

An Iranian borrowing: compare Northern Kurdish var̄ik (“chick, young of chicken; female chicken, hen”), Central Kurdish باڕ (barr, “immature”), باڕۆکە (barroke), dialectal واڕۆکە (warroke), Southern Kurdish واڕِگ (warrig), Laki ڤاڕِک (varrik), Hawrami ۋاڕوْکە (ʋāřɔka), Zazaki varrik, varrike (“pullet, chick”), Talysh верә (verä, “pullet”), Southern Luri [script needed] (bāřīk, “a hen which lays an egg for the first time”). Note also Georgian ვარია (varia, “pullet”). For the ultimate origin compare Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬭𐬆𐬔𐬀𐬥 (vār$^ə$gan, “a kind of predatory bird”), which may contain *𐬬𐬁𐬭𐬀- (*vāra-, “a kind of domestic fowl”) and 𐬔𐬀𐬥- (gan-, “to kill”).
An alternative (Old Armenian?) form վառեակ (vaṙeak) is recorded in several dictionaries, but its place of attestation is unknown. Modern literary վառյակ (vaṙyak) is a learned borrowing from this presumed form.
Dialectal Turkish ferik, feruk, ferük, firig, firik, Azerbaijani fərik (“young chick”) are sometimes cited as related terms or borrowings from Armenian, but they are probably from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “young chick”).

### Noun

վառեկ • (vaṙek)
* pullet, chick
** 1184, Mxitʻar Heracʻi, J̌ermancʻ mxitʻarutʻiwn [Relief of Fevers] : […] և կերակուր պարկեշտ տալ, զերդ վառեկ հաւ պարկեշտ համեմնով եփած, որ հիւանդին ուժն չպակասի, մինչև հիւանդութիւն ՚ի վճար գայ։[…] ew kerakur parkešt tal, zerd vaṙek haw parkešt hamemnov epʻac, or hiwandin užn čʻpakasi, minčʻew hiwandutʻiwn ’i včar gay.

#### Descendants

* Armenian: վառեկ (vaṙek), վառյակ (vaṙyak), վառէկ (vaṙēk) — Akhaltsikhe, Erzurum, վառեգ (vaṙeg) — Alashkert, Khotorjur, Mush, վառէկ$^յ$ (vaṙēk$^y$) — Maragheh, վառէգ (vaṙēg) — Hamshen, Nor Nakhichevan, Sivas, Aslanbeg, վառէք$^յ$ (vaṙēkʻ$^y$) — Kharberd, վա̈ռէկ (väṙēk) — Van, վա̈ռէկ$^յ$ (väṙēk$^y$) — Salmas, վառիգ (vaṙig) — Ararat, Zeitun, Svedia, վառիկ$^յ$ (vaṙik$^y$) — Shamakhi, վարիկ (varik) — Tbilisi, վա̈ռիկ (väṙik), վա̈ռըկ (väṙək) — Moks, վառնէկ (vaṙnēk) — New Julfa
** → Turkish: varek, varik (dialectal)

### References

* ↑ Anonymous disciples of Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1769) “վառեակ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Mnacʻordkʻ grabaṙ baṙicʻ haykazean lezui [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. The Remainder of Old Armenian Words]‎ (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 244a
* ↑ Awgerean, Mkrtičʻ, Čēlalean, Grigor (1865) “վառեկ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 749b
* ↑ Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “վառեկ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 730b

### Further reading

* Abajev, V. I. (1989) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 50
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վառեակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 308b
* Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, page 23
* Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 427
* J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “վառեակ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 704b
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վառեակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy